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I, too, built almost the same thing for my kids. It plays music, using Spotify, Chromecast, and a whole lot of virtual duct-tape via HomeAssistant. There is also an NFC tag that wi…

Yeah, we had a lot of construction debris once, and rented a 30 cubic-yard dumpster (one of the big ones). After we tossed what we had, we told the neighbors to bring all they want…

I agree completely. Just look at io_uring and PowerShell, to name some examples. io_uring totally rethinks the notion of a "syscall". It is going to eat the world, and most of us a…

I think you're basically right. I know some people that looked in to building a flow battery (it didn't pan out for other reasons). The utility wanted it for frequency regulation -…

Hah, I remember a pallet or the now-empty IA enclosures showing up at Noisebridge. They were super useful - a USB3-SATA adapter. I still have mine for occasional data spelunking.

I know you mention the San Francisco DMV, but you cannot get a commercial building connected to the water system in the city without a $10,000 bribe. Its cloaked with "agents" and …

Yeah, my dad had a tank like that. I dove with it exactly once - never again, yikes. It was coated inside and out so, despite being a steel tank, it was in excellent shape.

Argh, that's been my experience too. (I've just rented electric cars). None of the charging stations take credit cards; they all have some byzantine payment method. There are weird…

For sure. Part of being a successful writer is communicating in a way that is most effective for your audience. Rarely is a wall-of-text the right answer. Bullet points, flow diagr…

Yeah, same here. It turns out I could focus, but it took a lot of brain power to actually and understand text. Getting new glasses lowered the cognitive load.

You have to learn to write, and get comfortable doing it. When I was the (de-facto and later de-jure) architect, I was too reliant on in-person synchronous discussions. I neglected…

Systemd reflects the underlying system it is meant to support: the Linux kernel. And the Linux kernel is neither easy nor complex. That Systemd can make the mania of Linux knobs us…

They're phasing much of the go and replacing it with rust.

Agreed! "Hammock driven development" definitely has stuck with me over the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

The phrase "white-collar neo-feudalism" is probably the best characterization I've heard - thanks for that. The metaphor makes me wonder: who is the church - those who convince the…

Hmm. I'm not exactly sure if it's what you mean, but in the networking world, we use the term "Goodput" as a shorthand for "actual user-observed bandwidth".

Enjoy it! I've had this book for years. It's one of my treasured possessions.

For a similar tale of vDSO getting someone in trouble, check out this fun talk "Really crazy container troubleshooting stories": https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2017-115-really_crazy_con…

I was one of the spectators on the Prometheus thread. It took him 2 days. It was insane.

Agreed, just seems like marketing vaporspeak. Not exactly a trustworthy source, too. For example, containerd has been moved to the CNCF and made a broader project. Fine, but Docker…

The real problem is that you can no longer look at a fixed offset for your parameters, which complicates filtering silicon. In other words, if you want to have a firewall rule of "…

Indeed, especially as a company that has a reputation for producing unstable APIs that break between minor versions. This is a team that seems to think it is acceptable to return A…

Oh, I totally agree with you; flexibility in design is not intrinsic to Brutalist or non-Brutalist buildings. I don't have direct experience in construction, but in a past life I w…